Peter Hart's Voices of the Voters

Since 2004 the Annenberg Public Policy Center has been holding focus groups around the U.S. with voters across the political spectrum to gain insight into their attitudes and opinions about presidential candidates and campaigns and the issues defining those campaigns. These groups are moderated by veteran pollster and public opinion expert Peter Hart. In 2009 APPC expanded the project beyond elections to gauge opinions about President Obama, Congress and the state of the nation.
At each session, Hart moderates an open discussion with ten to twelve voters. Afterward Hart and a select group of political journalists gather in the same room to comment on what the group had to say and what their observations might suggest about the state of politics and government at that time. Below find an archive of Voices of the Voters focus groups by year with downloadable videos and archives of each event.

Veteran pollster Peter Hart and Hart Research Associates conducted their final focus group of the 2016 election cycle on October 25. They brought together a group of a dozen men and women in Charlotte, N.C., who remain undecided with two weeks left until election day, November 8.READ MORE

On August 25, pollster Peter Hart brought together a focus group of a dozen swing voters in Milwaukee to discuss their opinions of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and their general views of the election and the state of the country.READ MORE

On June 20, a focus group of eleven Pittsburgh blue-collar and working-class voters was brought together by pollster Peter Hart of Hart Research to discuss the 2016 presidential election. The session is the fifth in the “Voices of the Voters” project for the 2016 election cycle.READ MORE

How do Republicans in the Midwest perceive Donald Trump’s strengths and weaknesses? On March 22, 2016, a week after the Missouri GOP primary, Peter Hart gathered a dozen voters in St. Louis to discuss Trump’s candidacy.READ MORE

On Nov. 16, 2015, Peter D. Hart and Corrie Hunt, both of Hart Research Associates, conducted a set of two focus groups in Columbus, Ohio, as part of the “Voices of the Voters” project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.READ MORE

Pollster Peter Hart conducted a focus group in Indianapolis on Oct. 20, 2015 with a dozen Republican primary voters to understand the meaning behind the numbers and provide some sense of what may lay ahead in this GOP nominating process. READ MORE